Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine for pulverizing quartz.
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Examples
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Across the canon was the place for the mill, and there he erected it; and he erected, also, the endless chain of buckets, suspended from a cable and operated by gravity, that would carry the ore across the canon to the quartz-crusher.
Chapter XXVII 2010
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The roof of the mouth and the tongue of the fish are hard as ivory and shell-fish are ground between them as rock is pulverized by the jaws of a quartz-crusher.
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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Across the canon was the place for the mill, and there he erected it; and he erected, also, the endless chain of buckets, suspended from a cable and operated by gravity, that would carry the ore across the canon to the quartz-crusher.
Chapter XXVII 1910
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A quartz-crusher turns pale at sight of them, and they supply a permanent filling for aching voids or long-felt wants.
Raftmates A Story of the Great River Kirk Munroe 1890
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As a quartz-crusher the Princess could have won fame and fortune.
A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Frederic Mayer Bird 1873
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